Sketch

Last week I had a feeling they wouldn't be able to wrap things up sufficiently in one episode and yeah... basically that. I do think what happened in the episode was overall fine for setting up the next chapter but it leaves the whole season feeling undercooked and lacking in substance. I was kinda bored through most of it. The Elf Kingdom episode was probably the best storyline and it managed to mix some serious stakes with some levity. Having those decedents pop up to assist Emma was pretty fun. They're such dorks but the guy can certainly hold his own in a fight. Had this been structured as just one season then I'd have liked this episode to have been the penultimate one because it does show how Emma has grown as a character. Then the final episode would be big showdown with the evil. Their combined form was rad. My opinion might drastically change if a second season happens and it uses what they have setup for some interesting situations and more character growth.

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh I love FLCL but this friggin sucks. Just move up One Piece so I can go to sleep by 10:30 PST for my 7:30am 10 hour work shift. I’m going to bed after Dr. Stone, sorry One Piece. The one positive is it’s not Food Wars Fifth Plate, Unicorn or Primal season 2 again but Summer has been largely a waste and it doesn’t look to be improving before September. Can they TRY not to look like they can nothing about this extended lull period? I’m so tired in so many ways.

Updates on FLCLs, Uzumaki and Ninja Kamui are a given, maybe the WB x WIT anime that’s rumored to be a DC heroes isekai and maybe some yet to be announced originals for 2024. And they’ll have a slot or two to fill soon after so maybe they’ll announce an acquisition coming soon but I expect mostly updates on original series. They’ve been real quiet about all of them this year. And yeah they’ll probably only show a preview of Uzumaki at AX and wait till that panel to give the release date/window. I also don’t expect Toonami to be mentioned as the broadcaster for the WB x WIT project at AX and if it’s coming then Toonami will announce it at the Festival. Though it would be so like Toonami to spend a panel regurgitating news from a recent panel from one of their partners.

Kinda interesting premise but it could go very very badly.

Nah nah nah nah. The one good thing (for Toonami and Adult Swim) about the vest man is he still thinks linear cable is the best place to premiere television shows. But contrary to that he won’t let them invest in much scripted content for linear channels.

Ooooooph that Food Wars drop was no joke. One Piece managed to gain on it but the damage was done and Shippuden dropped below100k because of it. https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-saturday-6-24-2023-top-150-cable-originals-network-finals.html I suppose that's the real difference between an encore of an original airing days prior and an immediate rerun of an anime that just ended on the block. One is annoying because it's not new to us unless we intentionally ignore the prior airings and Max upload but to some viewers its new material. The other isn't new to anyone who watched it on Toonami and has no business airing anywhere but the back of the block if at all. If they have any intention of re-airing more of Food Wars it has to be at the ass-end of the block. You could argue it only hurts One Piece and Shippuden and reruns of MHA but that's half the block and the last thing the long runners need is more reason not to keep watching them. There's no reason to sabotage half the block to keep Food Wars earlier as a place holder. Just because they were able to get away with that nonsense with Primal a couple of weeks doesn't mean it's sensible to attempt it with Food Wars. Now's a real good time to bring back double One Piece if they still have nothing to slot in but I gotta believe they have SOMETHING else for July. I just hope they say what it is soon. It's about time to announce the July 15th schedule but they can and potentially will put that off until after the 4th of July. I'm only moderately hopeful they'll post it to Facebook by Friday.

The ID animations are probably very affordable but they have had a lot of them made recently.

Had Miguzi continued, I suppose it might have aired future Pokemon seasons, Beyblade, Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds, Tenkai Knights and various other toyetic anime that CN aired along with future Ben 10 seasons/series. I suppose if they no longer felt it should be on weekday afternoons that it could have moved to Saturday mornings where they ended up airing most action cartoons between 2011 and 2013.

And they say the new season is supposed to air this Fall and the only way they’re pulling that off is having someone dub over Roiland or keeping Roiland one more season. The animation has to be done soon.

Now I know nobody in charge watched Space Jam a New Legacy because that’s the plot of the movie. Can’t say I blame them though. Surely they at least watched a Matrix movie.

Kekkaishi did great. You should have said Code Geass.

Well that wouldn’t make sense… Nami peaces out and steals the Merry to return to Kokoyashi Village during Baratie which leads to the guys going after her and taking down Arlong.

Sure doesn’t look like it’s one of the most expensive TV series ever filmed. Looks rather cheap honestly. Despite the hand crafted boats and sets, every shot looks fake. The creature CGI is rough but so far Luffy’s stretching looks about as real as it can. Very authentic costuming, perhaps to a fault. The few bits of dialogue we got did amuse me and I can feel the enthusiasm from the cast both on and off the screen. With a decent script it could be enjoyable. I’ll give it a shot.

Funny thing… this is coming from the same character designer and animation studio as My Adventures with Superman, the character designer created LAST MAN too.

A DC graphic novel adaptation that isn’t cape shit is so incredibly welcome. Feels like both their answer to Hit Monkey and Food Wars coming to an end.

FX could totally kick Toonami’s decrepit ass with a Saturday block featuring Heavenly Delusion and Summer Time Rendering and they could really make it sting if the headliner was Bleach TYBW but Disney isn’t going to flex with their exclusive anime beyond keeping them exclusive to Hulu here.

Not even close to topping the CW’s ad which declared Superman is coming in Supergirl

2 D At an American studio Getting a theaterical release Tartakovsky truly is the greatest and maddest of animation directors

At minimum this is proof that the project isn't dead but I wont set my hopes too high for what they'll be showing off. That said, mentioning it in the description for this joint panel between Production IG and WIT makes me think it won't be a small tease because that would be a waste of time at a joint panel I would think. If MAWS runs 12-13 episodes creating an opening on September 30th or October 7th then I feel the odds are 50/50 that we'll see Uzumaki air before either FLCL series this year.

Yeah it had a marathon but no season got a full rerun even when Toonami could have used a reliable rerun.

Just couldn’t spare a Dr. Stone or One Piece to make up for a week off I guess. I’m 90% sure it’s a one off but I suppose it does leave them something to fall back on if they don’t have a new show for July 15th. If that happens then I just want them to shift Food Wars down to either 2am or 2:30. It’s just stupidly ironic if this shitty season is the only one they gave two full airings. But if the beach episode is the only one that repairs, that’s for the best. It’s arguably the best episode of season anyway.

Streaming isn’t profitable enough on its own unless it is ad-supported. No one wants to pay for multiple services every month and subscriptions are declining after they hit new highs during lock down. Netflix and Hulu worked when they were the only major services but now no one can hold subscribers like before. Kids in particular are watching videos on YouTube and TikTok when they have control of what they are watching.

It’s not looking good on that front. Kids aren’t watching cable and the CN brand means very little to them.

We can dream. At this point it’s anyone’s guess when it will finally air and/or stream. As for July 1st and 8th, this is so gunDAM predictable. They really aren’t going to give Toonami an extra wiggle room despite having 11 hours a night. I knew they weren’t going to spare us from a 2nd half marathon of Unicorn. This is about as bad as how they ran Black Lotus into the ground in a short time… arguably worse.

Love the name. I don’t know how well this will go but I think it’s a fun use of their massive library. Maybe they should have tried it under the CN banner but they’re going hard after the nostalgic 18-49s and being on AS makes more sense for the ad-space.